Breaking Banks: Why Boring Innovation Isn’t Bad [AUDIO]
Ron Shevlin, director of research with Cornerstone Advisors, stood in as host of Breaking Banks yesterday and discussed financial wellness...
Square Is Adding 100,000 Sellers Per Quarter
Mobile merchant Square has more than 2 million active sellers and is adding about 100,000 per quarter, according to CFO Sarah...
Alt. Lender SoFi Takes On Investor Shortage with Hedge Fund Launch
Social Finance CEO Mike Cagney always does things a bit differently. The alternative lender, commonly known as SoFi, began in student loan refinancing...
Asian Fintech Deal Sizes Dwarfed Those of U.S. in 2015
Asian fintech deal sizes dwarfed U.S. deal sizes in 2015, a new report from KPMG and CB Insights shows. Global...
FinTech Acquisition Scores CardConnect Deal Before Money Dries Up
FinTech Acquisition Corp., created to acquire a fintech company, has fulfilled its mission. The Philadelphia-based company announced yesterday it would...
Movo Raises Seed Round to Build Venmo Killer
Payments startup Movo wants to convert every mobile device into a card-issuing bank. Bank Innovation has learned that the Palo Alto,...
Chase Amps Up Personalization as It Preps Android Fingerprint Login
At JPMorgan Chase & Co., fingerprints and personalization are key next steps in its retail banking innovation evolution. Apple TouchID may...
Agile Development Has Banks Failing Fast (in a Good Way)
"Fail fast, fail cheap." The words were spoken at Bank Innovation 2016 by Marley Gray, director of strategy for cloud...
Biometrics Beats Blockchain at Bank Innovation 2016
Judges Phil Ryan, Scarlett Sieber, Ryan Caldwell, Matt Wilcox, and Sam Maule. Photo: @JillCastilla SEATTLE - In the end, it...
Ripple Stakes Out Its Territory: Payments
SEATTLE -- Ripple is working with more banks than R3 or Digital Asset Holdings, and is narrowly focusing on cross-border payments,...
